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  2. NEW ZEALAND.

    We are in receipt of New Zealand intelligence to the 25th ult. The following is a summary of the news:— Sir Geo. Grey turned the first sod of the ...

    Article : 2,060 words
  3. THE LETTER-CARRIERS' HALF-HOLIDAY.

    The letter carriers of Melbourne and suburbs celebrated the first anniversary of their Saturday half-holiday by spending a social evening together last Saturday, at ...

    Article : 1,693 words
  4. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1880.

    The following letter, addressed to the acting-secretary of the Intercolonial Exhibition Commission, will be read with interest:— ...

    Article : 1,977 words
  5. CRICKET.

    If the negroes of Origanda, described by Dr. Schweinfurth, in his Heart of Africa, as living under the equator, were wielders of the willow, and were to visit this colony on a ...

    Article : 2,627 words
  6. INTERCOLONIAL JUVENILE EXHIBITION.

    The weekly meeting of the executive committee of the Intercolonial Juvenile Exhibition was held on Friday, at the offices, 5 Collins-street west. Mr. D. Beath was in the ...

    Article : 509 words
  7. GROSS CRUELTY TO A HORSE.

    At the Fitzroy Police Court on Thursday (before Messrs. Showers and Marsden, J.P.'s). William M'Donald, cab driver, was charged under the 193rd section of the Criminal Law ...

    Article : 1,156 words
  8. THE ROWING SEASON.

    Except for some little desultory practice, the rowing, on the river during the past fortnight has been almost entirely at an end, owing to the holidays and the attractions on the ...

    Article : 383 words
  9. SATURDAY'S SPORTS.

    The following matches were played on Saturday:— Sandridge v. Civil Service—Sandridge, 96 and 88; Civil Service, 54 and four wickets for 35; St. Andrew ...

    Article : 467 words
  10. VICTORIAN ROWING ASSOCIATION.

    A meeting of the above committee took place at Young and Jackson's Hotel on Friday night. There were present Messrs. Nichols (in the chair), Bird, Kemp, Irvine, ...

    Article : 438 words
  11. POLICE.

    At the EMERALD-HILL Court on Saturday, an undersized middle-aged man named Charles O'Brien was charged with unlawfully assaulting his wife, Ellen O'Brien, and also ...

    Article : 327 words
  12. MATRICULATION TEXT-BOOKS.

    Sir,—Can you do anything to relieve some anxious schoolmasters, by publishing the actual state of affairs regarding the textbooks for this year's matriculation ...

    Article : 213 words
  13. RABBITS.

    Sir,—I was wrong in saying that phosphorus ignites spontaneously at a temperature of 160deg. F. I should have said 116deg. F., which, as you know, is 30deg. below the ...

    Article : 50 words
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